Senior Legal Counsel, Thomson Reuters
2-3 days a week in office
Financial news and financial data provider
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Financial news and financial data provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help professionals advance their businesses and gain competitive advantage with the trusted answers only we can provide.
Role
Who you are
- The successful candidate needs to be a hands-on commercial lawyer with extensive experience with complex software (including SaaS) deals, exceptional communication skills, capable of providing sound legal and business advice and counsel to sales professionals, product management, and other internal customers
- 5-7+ years post qualification experience in private practice and/or as in-house legal counsel advising on the sell rather than the buy side
- Experience with commercial contracting in a sales organization and a desire to build a legal career within a large corporate setting
- Excellent technical legal knowledge in contract and commercial law, particularly with SaaS products and solutions, including Gen AI products and solutions
- Excellent negotiation and drafting skills
- Excellent written/verbal communication skills. Ability to positively influence behavior of multiple stakeholders
- Ability to think strategically and creatively, to identify and resolve legal issues
- Experience and interest in providing strategic legal advice to business leaders and partnering with multiple stakeholders to drive strategy and growth
- Excellent communication, organization, and analytical skills, and an aptitude for problem-solving
- Experience and/or interest in using AI tools and other legal technology
- Ability to think strategically and creatively, to identify and resolve legal issues; desire and ability to quickly learn about Thomson Reuters’ products and services, and its internal processes and organizational structure
- Ability to successfully work in a team environment and in a matrixed organization and ability to build rapport and trust with both internal and external stakeholders. Ability to juggle multiple matters at once and work independently in a fast-paced environment and prioritize accordingly. Ability to exercise good judgement on when to seek help and where to find appropriate resources to solve problems
- Authorized to practice law
What the job involves
- We are currently seeking a senior lawyer with a proven record of customer service and a practical, problem-solving approach to providing commercial legal services in a technology-enabled, data-driven corporate legal department
- The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying and analyzing legal issues, drafting and negotiating documents, presenting commercially viable recommendations, and assuring legal compliance
- When dealing with internal or external customers, the successful candidate will seek to enhance the customer experience and simplify the customer’s interaction with the legal function
- The role sits within the Customers & Commercial team of the Thomson Reuters General Counsel Office, a highly collaborative team focused on enabling business growth and mitigating risk for the customer-centric commercial group
- To be successful in this role you should have the experience and capability to handle a broad range of legal and compliance matters
- Review, draft, and negotiate a wide range of customer facing and partner agreements, primarily complex software (including SaaS) and information licensing agreements, re-distribution, reseller, referral, hosting, content acquisition, consulting and professional services agreements, non-disclosure agreements and other commercial agreements relating to sales of Thomson Reuters products and services
- Work within the Customers & Commercial team to identify legal, regulatory and compliance requirements and risks associated with various business initiatives and developing and implementing appropriate mitigation strategies. Work with members of the General Counsel Office on enterprise- wide legal issues and projects
- Operate within policy guidelines and requirements set for Thomson Reuters lawyers to ensure compliance and consistency
- Research and respond to general legal inquiries from Thomson Reuters internal customers that relate to corporate, commercial, intellectual property and compliance matters, including privacy-related matters, and advise business on appropriate legal action to be taken
- Contribute know-how to the group’s Knowledge Management initiatives and help to build an open knowledge sharing culture
- Provide practical and insightful business and strategic advice, leveraging experience in the practice of law and the legal profession
- Undertake other reasonable duties as requested
Our take
Thomson Reuters is reinventing the way professionals work. The multinational media conglomerate provides answers that help professionals make better decisions to run smarter businesses. It targets those in complicated sectors that move society forward; tax, law, compliance, government, and media.
Founded over 165 years ago, the company is now powered by thousands of international journalists. This bandwidth guarantees speed, impartiality, and insight that have helped Thomson Reuters retain its position a market leader. To stay competitive with companies founded in the digital era, Thomson Reuters places emphasis on helping clients reinvent themselves for the newly disruptive digital age.
As well as investing in the coverage of growth markets India and China, and embarking on a number of fintech acquisitions, Thomson Reuters announced an expansion of its long-term partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group in 2023. Together, they plan to enhance the value of financial and market news services to LSEG customers, whilst delivering a superior experience to professionals around the world.
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back within 2 weeks
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Global careers
- Flexibility
- Work that matters
- Employee appreciation & recognition
- 2 paid volunteer days
- Learning and development
- Parental leave
- Social events and activities
- 2 mental health days off
Company values
- Trust
- Partnership
- Innovation
- Performance
Company HQ
Wellington Place, Toronto, ON
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Leadership
Steve Hasker
(President & CEO, not founder)Previously served as Senior Advisor for TPG, CEO for Creative Artists Agency, Global President & Chief Operating Office for Nielsen, and as a Partner for McKinsey & Company.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Thomson Reuters
- The diversity of our talents, ideas and experiences is our true strength. That's why we foster an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and have the opportunity to reach their full potential
- To drive innovation and deliver competitive advantage, we embrace diversity of thought, style, experience, culture, race, color, gender, national origin, religion, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status. citizen status and veteran status
- In 2020, we announced a commitment to reaching a minimum of 45% female representation in senior leadership roles, globally, by the end 2022
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